dr42

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by dr42 14y ago
Nope, didn't hurt my feelings at all, I was trying to help you learn the ropes. My comment was really pretty clear, and easy to follow, ST doesn't have a code formatter, you know, like textmate and eclipse do. It's a feature that lets you t
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by dr42 14y ago
Obviously you didn't actually try what you suggested, if you had you'd have found there are plugins for JSON and XML and probably a few other formats, but was hoping ST2 would have what textmate and eclipse has had for a long time, code fo
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by dr42 14y ago
6502 was for wimps :) LDIR, CPIR, HL and two register set exchange FTW :)
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by dr42 14y ago
This is the same as usenet. Back in the 80's and 90's the expectation of posting to say alt.tasteless.jokes was that it would happily scroll off into infinity. Then a million years later google has the whole damn lot indexed. The all-caps t
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by dr42 14y ago
Still doesn't seem to have 'correct indentation' which I would use often, especially for 'data' files like XML or JSON.
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by dr42 14y ago
Yes, I'm grateful to Walmart for keeping the great unwashed from cluttering the isles of whole foods :)
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by dr42 14y ago
Well first off, you're talking to a European, and while I'm sympathetic to the fear of the encroaching 'nanny state', I just don't share your solution (guns) If you want to get yourself fucked up then you're most likely quite happy to have
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by dr42 14y ago
Yes, there are probably some people that cannot figure out how to download chrome, but those people would also not likely notice any difference between chrome and the browser they already have. I was referring to the person that commented,
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by dr42 14y ago
I think DDG is best considered a search broker, it federates the queries out to other engines, like bing, or others under query syntax control, and I believe they are also crawling some or their own content, although that's mostly beyond an
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by dr42 14y ago
This is ridiculous. You're seriously suggesting that you're going to shoot your way to mobility :) I'm assuming that's just some macho bullshit because it's insane. What you're not realizing is that it's often not the person causing the acc
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by dr42 14y ago
Why would you pick one up? Why not simply download chrome. Having a cd is just going to be obsolete by the time you get home. Doesn't make any sense. If you're reading hn, you're probably already quite capable of downloading and installing
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by dr42 14y ago
Never been to Walmart, no plans to either, why would I want to. I plan my purchases a few days in advance, know what I want and like that amazon makes it show up at my desk a couple of days later. Haven't shopped in a regular retailer for
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by dr42 14y ago
the free-food culture is so ingrained in the tech world that it would be much harder to eliminate there. free food in tech startups isn't free at all. You (as the employee) are just donating more time & money to the employer. I'm fort
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by dr42 14y ago
I'd strongly advise looking at other areas than the memcache cloud service. The whole point of memcache is to be incredibly fast to prevent having to do a much heavier weight process, like making requests to databases. While you offer locat
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by dr42 14y ago
The cost has nothing to do with the product, that's determined based on other factors, like how many Mac's OSX sells. There's no straightforward relationship between price number of features. The direction appears to be cheap upgrades, and
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by dr42 14y ago
python's yield and the windows api yield() do quite different things, but at some abstract level, in windows 3.1 the yield() function would let the UI service the main event loop, thus keeping your ui responsive to user activity. yield in p
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by dr42 14y ago
I'm a bit curious why you'd never consider Ubuntu for development. I intended my words to mean the exact opposite of that. Unix for development gets my vote every day. Also, dev's don't use store bought computer operating systems, they in
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by dr42 14y ago
Assuming you're a developer, why would you have clung to 3.1? NT was available then and was considerably better operating system for development. I maintain an XP partition for when the corp I work for require mandatory training (ethics, in
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by dr42 14y ago
Fortunately there are others with more imagination. If all you can think of is Ikea, maybe hold off commenting until (you've actually read the article) others have opened your mind to more possibilities.
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by dr42 14y ago
Translation service.. A pram is a stroller to Americans.
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by dr42 14y ago
Well I'm glad my water supplier filters that, and I'm glad my electricity provider filters out spikes. While I personally don't want my ISP anywhere near my ip packets, the average person just wants to pay for Internet from an ISP and feel
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by dr42 14y ago
I wonder why on that labs page they have stolen Apple's 'settings' icon. It's exactly the same as the one used on the iPhone and iPad. Kind of sleazy of bittotrrent, although I suppose it's culturally consistent with their protocol.
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by dr42 14y ago
ok, now it's obvious you're just trolling.
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by dr42 14y ago
all levels of developer are "skilled engineers". The purpose of having names like junior, senior and so on is to hash into the job title some notion of their experience level. This might be silly to you, but since you're a mathematician, I
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by dr42 14y ago
they have to earn your respect by helping you succeed at your job. you don't have to respect anyone.
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by dr42 14y ago
This is a very handy piece of js. thank you
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by dr42 14y ago
This is just not true. Bloom filters are marginally more obscure, but I still expect a good candidate to have come across them at some point. Possibly in your area the candidates you get may have come across them, but then they wouldn't
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by dr42 14y ago
Those aren't basic at all, and I'm not sure why the commenter considered them so. As we all know, junior engineers have very limited exposure to a small area of tech, that's the very definition. It might just happen to be that the dev just
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by dr42 14y ago
It's not about the ability to research alternative approaches, it's knowing when it might make sense to do so. an "architect" [sic]
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by dr42 14y ago
How very cynical indeed. Speaking as a software architect, sometimes it's important to get people to lift their heads up from the day to day adding value and look at new technologies. Many times developers are so focused on the bug/featur

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